Purpose

I just read "Heroic Leadership: Best Practices From A 450 Year Old Company That Changed The World" by Chris Lowney.

He is a former Jesuit priest turned corporate investment banker. He describes Jesuit practices of how to become a better leader and one of the practices is to meditate for 5 minutes three times a day.

I wish to record the meat of my meditations...to keep me focused and moving forward.

The first focus is that divine love pours out into the world without end. It is not a limited quantity. This means knowing I and everyone around me is a "loved person of unique dignity and potential...". I don't have to respect the person but I do need to respect their divine spirit.

The next focus is to meditate on my key personal goals. Career, Relationships, Financial, Home.

The next focus is to take stock of my actions thus far in the day to see if they helped me reach my long term goals or moved me in the opposite direction. In the words of Al-Anon or AA, take a "fearless moral inventory" twice a day based on my actions. And if they were in the opposite direction to ask for divine help in moving me in the right direction.

The final focus is a "restless drive to imagine a greater project, or a better way of accomplishing the current problems". It also touches on motivation. What goals motivate you that you would go beyond 100% effort to achieve them. That idea of athletes going beyond what they thought possible to achieve the impossible.

So the meditations are:

-Key goals
-Divine Love
-Fearless moral inventory
-Motivation

Saturday, April 16, 2011

16 April 2011

LOVE:

Thinking about love last night, I realized that the more I give love the more I have to give. It is a totally weird dichotomy that this is true. But I am reminded again and again that it is true! Finding someone to love isn't about going out and looking for love it is about filling yourself with love so someone is drawn to you. That is something that I must keep remembering.

GOAL:

I am employed full time based out of New Orleans working in the oil and gas sector helping to save lives by engineering safer systems! With a supportive boss and an environment which promotes continual learning. Yep that is a worthy goal...that is something I can get behind and be excited to go to work every day!

INVENTORY:

Self care was good yesterday, I took an exam in the morning and got done around noon and instead of heading directly in to school I took the time to get some lunch. That is moving me in the right direction.

MOTIVATION:

Just putting the goal up there gives me butterflies, the desire to do more at every opportunity will be easy in that situation! Here we go!!! Lets see where the adventure begins!!
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